Re: Starting point

[Kendall Lister <kendall@charon.net.au>]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Bryan Paxton wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote:
>
> > - The LKAP should also work preventively by improving kernel (interface)
> > documentation and authoring documents on writing safe code.
> 
> Education is a key factor in security. Whether someone wants takes the
> time to sit down and write such a document or how-to remains to be seen
> : )

I have no kernel hacking experience, although I have done a moderate
amount of coding and design. I am keen to lend my time to a project like
this, but I would need someone with more specific knowledge of the kernel
and security in general to write down what I need to look for, and how to
fix it. If I could read that, I sometimes have a dozen hours here or there
that I would enjoy devoting to improving Linux; as I said, I just need
someone to tell me what needs to be done. I imagine that a lot of people
with development experience are in a similar situation - quite a useful
resource, if only a few people can take the steps necessary to use it.

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